Supreme Court Cases

Marbury v. Madison (1803) judicial review

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) state taxes + Nat'l Supremacy

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) state rights

Worcester v. Georgia (1832) tribal soverignty in the U.S + relationship between state + fed'l governments

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) slavery, due process, equal protection

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Seperate but Equal, equal protection

State of Tennesee v. Scopes (1925) teachers were later allowed to teach the theory of evolution in the classroom

Korematsu v. U.S. (1944) U.S. justified in Japanese Internment, Equal Protection

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) school segregation + equal protection

Mapp v. Ohio (1961) warantless search + due process

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) right to counsel + due processs

Miranda v. Arizona (1966) self-incrimination + due process ----------> term = to be "mirandized by the police (to be told your rights)

Tinker v. Des Moines school district (1969) student speech + symbolic speech

Roe v. Wade (1973) Abortion + Right to Privacy (more about this than abortion)

U.S. v. Nixon (1974) Watergate Scandal + Checks + balances ( "If the president does it, it's not illegal..........")

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) affirmative action + equal protection

New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985) student search + seizure

Texas v. Johnson (1989) flag burning + freedom of speech